New Celerons 733 & 766

[Wishbone]

Does any one know anything about these new chips? I've only been able find a small amount of stuff on them, which sounded strange to me. It said that they would be hard to overclock because the multipler is above 10.
I would have thought increasing the fsb would do the trick, does it mean that because it's multiplier is so high it can't take as much punishment as a lower multipler celeron? ....

[High_Jumbllama]

YOu do realize that at that high a multiplier each megahertz is less and less efective due to memory bandwith constaraints?

You are better off getting a lower speed PIII with a higher FSB.

[The PIT]

well get your calculator out and look at the steps that the finally mega hertz jumps by.

So a 566 on a 83mhz bus comes out at 705Mhz on 90Mhz it comes out at 765 Mhz
So a 733 on a 83mhz comes out at 832 MHz while at 90mhz it comes out at 990 Mhz which probably won't work unless you do a lot of mega cooling. So you can see, I hope, that smaller mulipliers allow you to increase fsb speed without over straining the processor so quickly.

[DentyCracker]

Plus Durons smoke their a$$. Even Micron now knows this http://www.bestbuy.com/Detail.asp?m=...491&e=11024203

[The PIT]

Yep thats true get the old pencil out.